1. candide
... bring to mind something similar to intolerance. It appears as though Voltaire is saying that a utopia can't exist. The author cleverly meshes the plot with his threads of sarcasm throughout the story to illustrate his points. In fact, Voltaire was so successful in combining the story with underlying themes that often times it's very difficult to recognize when a comical incident, or any incident ... both institutions and pure optimism, that manual labor will be best in the end, and that this is not the best of all possible worlds since one can't exist. This makes Voltaire sound like a t...
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